KODIAK, Alaska – Coast Guard Lt. Shad Soldano escapes from a dunk trainer during wet drills Wednesday. Wet drills consist of classroom training, pyrotechnic training, a survival suit swim in Woman’s Bay, life raft training, a 75-yard swim test in full gear and for members who work in helicopters a 2-minute tread water test and a dunk trainer. The dunk trainer simulates a helicopter crash in the water. The crewman is place in a seat and flipped upside-down underwater. The crewman has to then escape the chair, use their emergency air and make it to the surface. Members of the Coast Guard’s aviation community go through wet drills as annual training. (Official Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Paul Roszkowski)
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